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CAR FENDER.

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ANDREI/V L. SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,951, dated August 30, 1898.

Application filed August 19, 1896.

T alt whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW L. SMITH, of New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in, car-fenders, with the object in View of pro viding an inexpensive and effective device which sh all retain its position sufficient-1y near the track to insure the catching of an object struck on its surface and which shall not be subject to the up-and-down swaying motion of the carbody.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a portion of a car, showing the fenders at the opposite ends, one of them in position for use at the front of the car and the other folded up out of use at the rear of the car. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, on an enlarged scale, taken longitudinally through the cartruck, showing the position of the fender-supporting bar and fenders as they appear on the inner side. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section through the line 4. 4 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged view showing the fender in its folded position out of use.

The car-body is denoted by A. It is here represented as supported upon two pairs of wheels B B, the former connected by an axle b and the latter by an axle b.

Fender-supporting bars 0 O, of angle-iron construction, are suspended from the axles b b, so that the said bars are not afiected by the vibrations of the car-body. The fenders are located at both ends of the cars, and they are composed of fender-frames and aprons. The fender-frame consists of an angle-iron bent in loop form, the ends of its branches 0 0 being hinged, by means of a tie-rod D, to the ends of the said supporting-bars G O and so arranged with respect to the flanges of the said bars that the fender-frame will be held with its free end 0 the desired distance above the ground by the contact of the free ends of the said branches 0 c with the said flanges on the supporting-bars, as clearly shown at c in Figs. 1 and 3.

The fender-frame as it extends forwardly from its connection with the supporting-bars gradually increases inwidth, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, so as to protect the truck its Serial No- 603,191. (No model.)

ing the free edge of the fender-frame from its position in proximity to the track.

When not in use, the fender may be folded up against the dashboard, as shown in Fig. 1, and retained in position by some suitable catch a. To permit the folding of the branches o 0, the flanges on the supporting-bars G C are cut away for "a short distance back from the net, as shown at 0 Fig. 3. In practice the fender-frames being supported from the axles of the car-trucks will retain their position in such proximity to the track as may be found expedient, while the car-body, with the flexible apron attached thereto, will be free to vibrate without lifting the free end of the fender from its position. The structure as a whole is so simple and inexpensive that it may be applied to both ends of the car without objectionable expense, thereby saving the time required in transferring the more ex.

pensive guard from end to end of the car as it changes its direction along the track. The flexible apron is at all times in such position as to surely catch and retain any object that may be struck.

What I claim is-- The combination with fender-supporting bars of angle-iron construction fixed to the car-trucks, of a fender comprising a frame of angle-iron construction bent into loop form and having its branches hinged to the ends of the fender-supporting bars, the flanges of the said bars being cut away to permit the frame to swing upwardly and serving to support the frame in its lowered position with its outer end spaced from the ground and a flexible apron loosely suspended between the end of the frame and the dashboard of the car, substantially as set forth.

ANDREW L. SMITH. Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES,

GEORGE BARRY, J r. 

